As was done under Bismarck, the accusation could be made against the Catholics that they are bad citizens of the state because their heart is ultramontane; it clings “over the mountains” to the pope and his authority.

Jindal's ultramontane (hey, look it up!) view denies the validity of the most spiritually important belief of any Protestant - the personal relationship with God - in favor of deferring to an institution that "infallibly determined the canon of the Bible."